Day 1
08:30 - Full Day Programme
08:30 COFFEE & REGISTRATION
09:00 CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS
09:10 KEYNOTE: THE NEW POLITICS OF ENERGY
Clive Moffatt, Independent Consultant
- Explore a critical assessment of future energy policy and its impact on gas generation
- A post-election analysis and review
- Gain insight into the evolution of energy policy – priorities and conflicts
SESSION 1 - Market Conditions
09:40 GAS TURBINE EMISSIONS COMPLIANCE UNDER THE INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS DIRECTIVE
David Graham, Technical Consultant, E.ON Technologies
- Review the implementation of the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) for gas turbines (NOx and CO)
- Describe how Start-Up and Shut-Down rules are defined by the European Commission
- Consider new arrangements for emissions regulation below 70% load in the UK
10:05 PLANT MODIFICATIONS TO MATCH CHANGING MARKET CONDITIONS
Thomas Krogh, Principal Project Manager, Ramboll Energy
- Gain insight into the Silkeborg CHP Plant
- Explore the several upgrades and modifications that have been implemented to match the changing market conditions
- Discuss the original concept of the plant, review the modifications carried out and list the benefits achieved
10:30 LIFE CYCLE COST REDUCTION – CAN THE LESSONS LEARNT IN AEROSPACE BE APPLIED TO THE POWER GENERATION INDUSTRY?
Stuart Cox, Head of Function Post Design Services, Aerospace - Gas Turbines, Assystem UK
- Learn about the experience of Aerospace in the maintenance market
- Hear about Aerospace’s full life cycle cost reduction model
- What are the potential benefits to the power generation industry going forward?
- New possible models and next steps
10:55 Question and Answers Session
11:10 NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK
SESSION 2 - Life Extension
11:30 CREEP-FATIGUE INTERACTION DURING FLEXIBLE PLANT OPERATION
Alan Johnson, Group Leader Structural Assessment, Frazer-Nash Consultancy
- Methods for the assessment of the interaction between creep and fatigue of components
- Developed sophisticated methods for Component Lifetime Assessment
- Understand material responses to thermal and mechanical load cycles to understand how damage accumulates in high integrity components
11:55 ANALYSIS AND SAMPLING APPROACH TO ASSESS ROTOR LIFE EXTENSION
Mike Wood, Principal Gas Turbine Consultant, Edif ERA
- Explore the assessment of rotor disc post by reverse engineering and analysis
- Understand fracture mechanics assessment for defect sensitivity
- Sampling of material from rotor for toughness estimation
12:20 GAS TURBINE COMPONENT LIFE EXTENSION AND ITS EFFECT ON THE COST OF OWNERSHIP
Clifford Smith, Independent Engineering Consultant, CSGT Consultancy
- Explore life extension through component repair as one method of achieving the goal of reducing costs
- Understand why is it desirable and how it can achieve gas turbine component life extension
- Define gas turbine component repair; what is involved, where, within a gas turbine, is it most effective?
12:45 NETWORKING LUNCH
13:45 THE USE OF LASER METAL DEPOSITION (LMD) FOR GAS TURBINE COMPONENTS
Roger Fairclough, Principal Project Leader, Joining Technologies Group, TWI Technology Centre (Yorkshire)
- Explore the benefits of this technology to the welding/deposition of difficult and crack-prone alloys
- Improve surface properties for corrosion and wear resistance and to repair and rebuild worn and damaged parts
- Demonstrate the adaptability and innovation of the process with relevant applications with still and movie clips
14:10 Question and Answer Session
14:30 SITUATIONAL PROBLEM-SOLVING ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
Delegates will be able to flex their development and application skills by participating in two roundtable discussions. Each table will be presented with a hypothetical project and introduced to an unexpected situation that interrupts the project’s development.
Each table will have just 40 minutes to develop a strategy and timescale to resolve the problem and to get the initial project back on track, followed by a report of key conclusions and the opportunity for questions and answers.
15:15 NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK
15:40 SITUATIONAL PROBLEM-SOLVING ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION CONT.
SESSION 3 - NEW TECHNOLOGY
16:25 ADVANCED GAS TURBINE VALIDATION UPDATE
Marcus Scholz, Technical Director for the Advanced Combined Cycles, General Electric
- Achieve new records in efficiency and reliability through adapting many aero engine technology features
- Understand the role of engine validation in the process of maturing advanced technology
- Learn from the first 9HA gas turbine which has been operated for over half a year over a range of operating conditions
16:50 FUEL GAS PERFORMANCE HEATING WITH DIFFUSION BONDED HEAT EXCHANGERS
Robert Broad, Business Development Manager, Heatric
- Comparison of compact heat exchangers to conventional shell and tube exchangers in fuel gas performance heating for efficiency improvements
- Ability to go to higher temperatures and pressures without mechanical limitations of shell and tube exchangers
- Modular approach to fuel gas, with the possibility to close couple to gas turbine
17:15 Question and Answers Session
17:30 CHAIRMAN’S CLOSING REMARKS
17.30 END OF CONFERENCE DAY ONE
17:45 DRINKS RECEPTION
Day 2
08:30 - Full Day Programme
CONFERENCE DAY TWO
08:15 COFFEE & REGISTRATION
08:45 CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS AND RECAP OF DAY ONE
08:55 RESULTS AND KEY FINDINGS FROM ROUNDTABLES
Each of the facilitators from the roundtable discussions will present the delegation with their key challenges and solutions from the discussion. Delegates will also be given time to present questions to each of the facilitators.
09:40 GT26 OPERATIONAL EXPERIENCE UNDER CHANGING MARKET CONDITION
Leone Tessarini, General Manager - Fleet Management (GT26), Alstom
- Gain insight into the changing market condition, particularly in Europe
- Discover Alstom Power and improvements in the operational flexibility and experience
- Discover the high importance to keep the efficient CCPP’s as long as possible in operation as an alternative to compensate for the varying power supply
10:05 STAYTHORPE 1740 MW CCGT - OPERATIONAL EXPERIENCES AND IMPROVEMENTS SINCE BUILD IN 2009, INCLUDING 4 ALSTOM GT26 MXL UPGRADES
John Booth, Maintenance Section Head, Staythorpe CCGT, RWE Generation UK plc
- Challenging market conditions for CCGT owners, the need for very flexible, efficient CCGT plant
- Insight into the background and decision to upgrade a relatively new CCGT after only four years and contractual way forward in capital constrained environment
- Explore the planning, site works and results since the build
10:30 NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK
10:50 EVOLUTION OF OUTAGE SUPPORT AND MAINTENANCE STRATEGY
Matt Rudge, Gas Turbine Engineer, E.ON
- Understand the approaches and applications adopted by E.ON Technologies (ETG)
- Explore the benefits of both working with and independently of the OEM
- Insight into how OEM’s have become more aware of the financial constraints concerning users
11:15 THE HOLY TRINITY FOR RELIABLE GAS TURBINE OPERATION
Ian Webb, Technical Authority for the SGT-400 Gas Turbine in Service Globally, Siemens Industrial Turbomachinary
- A Discussion and Lessons Learned on:
-Clean Air
-Clean Fuel
-Clean Oil
11:40 REMOTE ONLINE GAS TURBINE MONITORING
Seth Muthuraman, Condition Monitoring Engineer, SSE
- Gain insight into gas turbine condition monitoring using model based technology
- Hear innovations is gas turbine combustion dynamics monitoring
- How to address gas turbine vibration monitoring
12:05 Question and Answer Session
12:20 NETWORKING LUNCH
SESSION 4 - PROCESS EXCELLENCE
13:20 POWER PLANT PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT PROCESS
Tim Eastwood, Business Development Director, Alstom Power
- Understand how the power market is changing rapidly and what the industry can expect going forward
- Develop a collaborative approach to understanding how to optimise the customers power plants
- Identify areas to be addressed to optimise the plants for performance, capacity, longevity or other drivers
13:45 MAJOR MAINTENANCE PRACTICES: CAPITAL PARTS TRACKING
Martin Wright, Senior Account Manager, Strategic Power Systems International (UK) Ltd
- Understand the specific goal of monitoring and reporting on turbine systems
- Explore the significant change within the industry both structurally and technologically
- Address the support systems to secure strong infrastructure
14:10 RULE-BASED OPERATIONAL DATA HANDLING TO MAXIMIZE O&M PERFORMANCE
Davood Naderi, Responsible for Operation Experience, Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery
- Providing unified view on the outage events
- Evolving the historical role of service organization from being service provider to act as operational support
- Providing separated KPIs for product-design itself, maintenance program and service activities
14:35 Question and Answer Session
14:55 NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK
15:15 FACTORS DRIVING LOSSES ON GAS TURBINES
Syd Regan, Senior Consultant Engineer, FM Global
- Evaluate the seven risk factors when assessing the potential for a failure on a gas turbine
- Ensure the engineer has loss prevention solutions that can reduce and mitigate the risk of failure
- Manage the relationships with OEMs or maintenance providers
15:40 THE USE OF TENSIONING NUTS TO IMPROVE SAFETY AND EFFICIENCY
Michael Dolan, Chief Engineer, HYTORC
- How a simple nut upgrade can optimise Hot Gas Pass casing and increase safety
- Learn about advantages of mechanical tensioning upgrades
- Discover how different applications of tension nuts can improve efficiency
16:05 CHALLENGES FOR THE INDUSTRIAL GAS TURBINE
Frank Carchedi, Director of Business Excellence and Quality, Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery
- Explore the critical technologies used in modern gas turbines
- Gain a forward view of the future technologies which will continue the performance development while extending fuel capacity
- How combined heat and power applications can achieve well over 80% cycle efficiency
16:30 Question and Answers Session
16:45 CHAIRMAN’S CLOSING REMARKS
17:00 END OF CONFERENCE